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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
I was studying house flies while I had to kill two last week! There is a flaw in their programming!  Sitting on a surface, you will never be able to catch them/kill them if you move fast. However, if an object starts out slow, they don't treat it as a threat, allowing you to speed up said object to fast while they only lazily try and get away. This allows one to catch or kill a housefly as needed with nothing more than a piece of paper towel, or even ones hand for that matter! :p
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You forgot to mention that flies move backwards a bit when they take off, but your are spot on about moving the object you intend to swat them with slowly.
If one approaches a fly from behind, slowly, and then executes the swatting motion rapidly, they almost never get away. The ones that do are usually young flies that seem to have ADD. I may never have killed an insurgent in Iraq (that I know of) but I killed a hell of a lot of flies. You can even catch one with your eyelid if it lights on it while you're snoozing.
Weren't we talking about gravity or FTL or something?